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Recited the pledge, applause after ward and he didn't show any of that. bill: i accept that explanation. let's get mr. david's answer on that. is that satisfactory, sir? >> well, i think the congressman's reaction speaks to itself. in truth, my staff and i were there to see if we could find henry waxman, who was invited to the town hall event and who didn't make an appearance and our problem with henry waxman is that he never holds town halls or makes himself available for constituents to question him openly on different issues, and my staffer just took the initiative because he thought a sitt...

Which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all bill: we've since come to find out the man who asked that the pledge of recited is aide for ari davis, running against henry waxman in california, that's in a neighboring district, he's asking the congressman be becerra to clarify his reaction so we've invited both men on our program to hash this out. ari david is live in l.a. and harker becerra joins us, also. we thank you for your time. representative becerra, ari david said your reaction was completely inappropriate. why did you react the way you did once...

Pledge. >> that's simply not the case. the meeting had basically just started when congressman becerra says that the meeting was going on for an hour, the room was filling up for an hour because it was a crowded meeting with many people. but it was basically the very beginning of the meeting, and if congressman becerra thinks that the statement was taken out of context, there was every media outlet in the city with cameras and i'm sure congressman becerra could show the whole feed if that suits him. >> was that out of line, congressman? >> everything he said is out of line. take a look at the ...